The US will slap Syria with new economic sanctions to curb the rogue nation’s use of chemical weapons, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Friday.

“We view sanctions as being a very important tool,” Mnuchin told reporters at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

Mnuchin revealed few details about the penalties but said they would go into effect in the “near future,” The Hill reported.

The announcement shows that Team Trump is ratcheting up its fight against Syrian strongman Bashar Assad after a deadly nerve gas attack that his forces carried out this week.

The announcement came a day after after US navy warships launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at an airfield from which the Syrian military launched the attack that killed scores, including women and children.